Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Jazz is like a big secret club. The mainstream media doesn't pay any attention to it; it's, like, 1 percent of the music market - no one cares. Why? Because the majority of jazz is old.
Jazz is an art that takes decades to appreciate and understand.
They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.
Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it.
Jazz comes from our way of life, and because it's our national art form, it helps us to understand who we are.
Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it. The music can connect us to our earlier selves and to our better selves-to-come. It can remind us of where we fit on the time line of human achievement, an ultimate value of art.
I'm concerned with trend. I don't know where jazz fans will come from 20 years from now.
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
You know, it's funny... when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician.
I never gave up on that idea, you know, that jazz musicians have the same opportunity as everybody else and that it's what you put on that record that makes the difference whether you sell it or not or are able to get it into people's households.